In Memories of Light, GPaolo takes the viewer on a pictorial journey through real places, inner visions and unexpected tales of fantasy. The sea, harbours, cities, solitary houses and wind-swept skies become fragments of memory, held on the canvas by light and the material texture of colour.
The urban and Mediterranean views evoke memories of lived experiences, while the portholes open onto imaginary worlds inhabited by animals caught in amusing and impossible situations. Reality and invention thus coexist within the same narrative universe, united by a curious gaze capable of recognising wonder both in everyday life and in dreams.
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Date: From July 22nd to August 9th, 2026, Meeting with the Artist on July 31st at 6:00 PM
Thus, Refraction becomes the silent tale of a paradox: a single fragment of imperfect glass is enough for an age-old city to appear new, for the everyday to be tinged with unreality, for a physical law to turn into visual poetry. In that encounter between light, matter and memory, the viewer is not merely looking at a landscape: they lean out over a dream that never quite comes into full focus, and it is precisely for this reason that it continues to enchant..
The work reflects on the way light alters what we see and, more profoundly, on the unstable nature of perception. Each image depends on the point of view, the material passing through it, and the experience of the observer.
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The artist GPaolo will participate with an in-depth analysis and related critical presentation hosted within the exhibition of the National Pavilion of Grenada at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, at the Spazio Berlendis.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 4:00 PM, while the work will remain on display on November 4, 5, and 6, 2026.
There are artists who describe the world, and artists who teach us to look at it anew. In this exhibition, Fontanini and GPaolo create a journey in which reality is not merely represented, but illuminated by an additional light: femininity becomes overwhelming, the city turns into a vertical tension, architecture becomes prayer, the sea opens itself to storytelling, and human bonds take on the concrete form of protection and memory.
The works gathered here arise from different experiences — observation, travel, memory, poetic invention — yet they all converge in the same disposition of gaze: one that recognizes in the visible a place still capable of wonder. For this reason, the exhibition does not follow a single iconographic theme. Instead, it brings together skylines and cathedrals, flowering fields and marine depths, intimate scenes and unexpected apparitions, allowing the visitor to discover, step by step, a common thread.
Here, that thread is wonder. Not as an escape, but as a profound form of attention. In the paintings of Fontanini and GPaolo, the world remains recognizable and yet is transformed: an imperfect pane of glass alters an ancient city, a tourist “from another world” moves silently through New York, the Mediterranean comes alive with surprising presences, a grandfather protects a child from the wind, and a simple table of bread, wine, and cheese becomes an image of gratitude.
In this journey, painting does not confine reality within a definition; it reopens it. And it reminds us that truly seeing always means, in some measure, allowing ourselves to be involved.
GPaolo
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Period: From June 4 to June 11, 2026, with the opening on Friday, June 5 at 6:00 PM
The Galleria degli Artisti was founded in 1979 by Maria Salvi, a journalist and art critic with a keen eye for the cultural landscape of her time. Today, the gallery is meticulously managed by Emma Salvi, who continues its work, enriching it with a vibrant program of events and cultural initiatives.
was born as a refuge at a moment when everyday life is no longer enough, when a language capable of restoring depth to our gaze becomes necessary. Each work is an act of care, a form of beauty that nourishes the spirit. It does not erase scars, but makes them legible. It offers a pause from the noise and opens a fissure toward a more authentic part of our existence. Time expands, the superfluous scatters like dust in the wind, and what truly matters remains.
Each work becomes a passageway: the viewer does not remain outside. They enter. And in that entry, something simple and decisive happens. One recognizes oneself.
Not better, not different. More real.
“The visible is what we perceive, the invisible is what sustains us.”
Carla Pugliano
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Period: from July 3 to July 12, 2026,, Opening event on Saturday, July 4 at 4:30 PM
The splendid setting of Terni, an Umbrian town that preserves numerous treasures of Italy’s artistic heritage, hosts within the spaces of the Diocesan and Capitular Museum, the most important in the Umbria region, the contemporary art exhibition “INVISIBLE THRESHOLDS”, curated by Carla Pugliano, artist, artistic director of CathArt Gallery, and consultant for L’Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, Giunti Editions. Daniele Radini Tedeschi will be present as a guest, a renowned art critic, writer, and current curator of the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale Arte – Grenada Pavilion. The initiative, sponsored by the Municipality of Terni and addressed to Italian and international artists, was created in collaboration with Gruppo Start, CathArt Gallery, and the cultural association La Rosa dei Venti.
The Expositiva Art Prize—organized by EXPOSITIVA APS—was created from the desire to promote contemporary art as a tool for renewal, capable of generating new ideas and inspiration.
Artists, free from thematic constraints, can express themselves through elements, images, concepts, and materials that represent individual thought, their world, and their unique and subjective artistic sensibility.
The Prize is hosted at Castello Isimbardi in Castello d’Agogna (PV), dating back to the 13th century: a prestigious venue that offers an important showcase for emerging and creative artists.
The artworks exhibited within the spaces of Castello Isimbardi are set in a place rich in centuries of history, where each one engages in dialogue with memory and the past.
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Dates: from March 7–15, 2026, with the opening on Saturday, March 7 at 5:00 PM
On this occasion I will take part in the group exhibition “Forme d’Arte – Sculpture & Painting”, hosted at the Sala del San Leone in the heart of Pietrasanta. The exhibition brings different artistic languages into dialogue— from sculpture to painting—united by the desire to portray contemporary life through material, light, and each artist’s personal sensitivity.
Pietrasanta has long been a symbolic place for art: a crossroads of marble, foundries, artisan workshops and galleries, it has welcomed and inspired generations of artists, building over time an international reputation as an open-air creative laboratory. The initiative is organized by Promo-Terr and is held under the patronage of the Municipality of Pietrasanta. I will present four oil-on-canvas works: “Dopo la notte, il lavoro non è ancora finito” (2024), “I guerrieri della luce” (2024), “Il Nonno e il Nipotino” (2025) and “Rifrazione” (2025).
TALK AND DEBATE: ETHICAL USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PAINTING
On January 24th at 5:00 PM, at the exhibition venue and in agreement with the organizers, I have scheduled a talk and a closing debate on this topic.
The goal is to demonstrate how AI can enter the painting process without distorting authorship and what rules to adopt out of respect for the public, colleagues, and the market.
In some of my works, I have used AI to generate a basis for study or to explore compositional solutions before painting; painting is all about execution, correction, material, and choice.
During my talk, I will refer to the painting on display, “Grandfather and Grandson.” This painting was born from a dream I was half asleep. The image was surprisingly clear: not a vague idea, but a precise scene, with a certain light and a certain gesture. I described that vision in detail and used artificial intelligence as a support tool during the study phase: to explore some variations of composition and atmosphere, not to “paint the painting for me.” The painting itself was then an entirely manual process: color choices, corrections, material, and above all the attempt to preserve the original emotion of the dream. For me, the ethical use lies here: AI as a rapid laboratory to test possibilities, while maintaining transparency and accountability for the final work.
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Dates: From January 10 to February 4, 2026, daily from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (closed on Mondays), with the opening on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 pm.
During the evening of Saturday, 24 January, Promo-Terr organized a brief talk by GianPaolo Macario on “The ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in painting.” During the session, around ten artists discussed and exchanged views on this topic, which is expected to have a significant impact on the profession in the coming years.
There is an ancient word, desiderium, which in Latin denotes the aching absence of something loved and far away. Yet within that word also lives a gaze turned skyward, searching for missing stars, for possibilities still unseen. DESIDERIUM is an exhibition that explores desire as a creative force, as an impulse toward what is not there—or not there yet. The works selected will chart emotional maps: they will press toward an inner elsewhere, oscillating between nostalgia and visionary tension. Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance—the admitted art forms—become instruments for probing absence, but also for evoking new bearings. The missing stars become symbols of what our time lacks: meaning, care, beauty. Desire as memory, as vision, as the language of the body, of matter, of light. From it emerge works that offer no answers, but questions: intimate, vertiginous, necessary. “Desiderium” is thus a constellation of fertile absences, an exhibition space that becomes an interstice between the real and the hypothetical. An invitation to desire without measure. And never to stop searching the sky.
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Date: January 31st to February 7th, 2026, with inauguration on Saturday, January 31st at 6:00 PM
is the new collective exhibition bringing colour and contemporary visions to the historic Libreria Bocca in Milan, under the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the city’s “drawing room” just a few steps from the Duomo. Founded in 1775 and recognised as one of the oldest and most prestigious bookshops in Italy, Bocca is a Historic Shop, a Historic Venue of the Lombardy Region and a “Place of the Heart” of the FAI, a reference point for lovers of books, art and culture.(Il Giorno)
The exhibition, curated by Simona Heart, will feature a dialogue between the works of several artists in a unique space, where floor-to-ceiling shelves and traces of publishing history become the backdrop to contemporary painting.
Among the works on display will be the painting by GianPaolo Macario, Come un fremito felino, selected and published in the Agenda degli Artisti, which invites visitors to dwell on a vibrant instant of feline energy and sensitivity in the beating heart of Milan.
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Date: January 11-24, 2026, with opening on Sunday, January 11, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Rooted in 1940, the Atlas of Contemporary Art is the longest-running Italian art yearbook and a touchstone for scholars, gallerists, and collectors.
Recognized by the Senate of the Republic as an “instrument for promoting Italian culture worldwide,” it has cemented a historic role in mapping modern and contemporary art.
Unique in its kind, it is featured at major international events: MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Art Basel Miami, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Giunti stand), and the Venice Biennale (Book Pavilion at the Giardini).
The next edition, in 2026—curated by Stefania Pieralice (Volume Curator) and Gianni Dunil (Editor-in-Chief)—will be presented at MoMA by renowned art critic Daniele Radini Tedeschi, further strengthening dialogue with global institutions. Published and distributed by Giunti, the Atlas of Contemporary Art reaches readers and industry professionals extensively.
Art Exchange: America & Italy – A Cultural Bridge Between Calabria and the United States
From August 6 to 24, 2025, the elegant halls of Palazzo Gagliardi in Vibo Valentia will host the international group exhibition “Art Exchange: America & Italy”, promoted by the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation. After its successful debut in New York at the Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, the event now arrives in Italy as a vibrant cultural exchange between two artistic worlds: Italian and American.
The initiative aims to foster a visual and creative dialogue between Calabria and the United States, bringing together Italian and American artists through diverse expressive languages united by shared values and universal perspectives. As Giuseppe Lombardi, Vice President of the cultural association Rambaldi Promotion, stated, the exhibition “highlights art as a universal language capable of transcending borders and promoting mutual understanding.”
Among the featured works are pieces ranging from tradition to innovation, showcasing a wide variety of styles, techniques, and artistic approaches. The exhibition as a whole invites visitors to reflect on the power of art as a tool for intercultural connection and as a vehicle for shared creativity..
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Date: From July 17 to August 24, 2025, with opening on Thursday, July 17 at 5:00 PM
The Calabrian press and television gave extensive coverage to the event, which was covered and described on numerous occasions, often highlighting my painting of New York.
